Elmhurst is a

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in north

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. It occupies the area to the north and south of Elmhurst Road, now a section of the town's ring road. Elmhurst is mainly residential and has a very small shopping area on Dunsham Lane and another next to the Buckingham Road junction. Most of the housing consists of terraced

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and blocks of low-rise flats.

Education

Elmhurst has two state schools, The Elmhurst School, on Dunsham Lane situated next to the Alfred Rose Park, and St Louis Catholic Combined School, located on the edge of the estate near Bierton Road.

St Louis Catholic Combined School

St Louis Catholic Combined School is a

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. It is a coeducational school which takes children from the age of 4 through to the age of 11 and has 238 pupils. It was founded in 1945 by a group of French nuns of the Sisters of St Louis order.

References

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